just a glorified penis size test on gfx hardware.
Exactly, it's a benchmark. Just like F1 is a glorified penis size test for drivers and cars. Anyways, at least it's a chance for me to do something bit more advanced gfx than my Blitz3D tech stuff...
And in reality 3DMark tech IS what games are using, we just use it year or two before any games do - and of course our load is heavier than what games usually use... but just look at 3DMark03 or 05 and you can see that they used stuff that games now use too, and for example 03 goes pretty fast with todays hw although it hardly did when we published it! :)